VoiceThread fills the social presence gap found in online learning interactions

VoiceThread offers a natural online interaction that lends itself to students presenting & defending their work before experts and peers.

— Educause Learning Initiative

One of the things I felt was missing from our curriculum was the real seminar like we had back in college where you read some heavy material and then sit around the table and dig into it together as a class. ... Because the seminar-style course [I was] desigining would be delivered completely online with no face-to-face component, [I] needed a way to recreate the seminar table virtually...